Overview

• Stone told Business Insider she and Douglas clashed at Cannes in 1992 when he yelled “What the f--- do you know?” across a group of people
• She said the exchange almost derailed her audition for the lead role in Basic Instinct
• Douglas’s representative Allen Burry told People the actor has no recollection of any argument and first met Stone during her screen test
• Both actors agree their on-set dynamic clicked and that they were friends by Basic Instinct’s Cannes promotion
• The contrasting accounts underscore how memory and official statements shape public perception of their decades-long relationship